College students: Lock and load. A bill allowing guns on the grounds of Arizona’s public universities and community colleges is awaiting a signature from Governor Jan Brewer, so if you’re a college student hip to Arizona’s lunatic gun culture, you might want to gear up with a new piece. Of…
asu.edu ASU’s new logo and typeface Fear the fork — Arizona State University’s longtime devlish mascot, Sparky, is taking the backseat to a pitchfork as A-State’s logo, just one change in a series of new athletic looks unveiled by the school today. The redesign of ASU’s athletic look includes…
Two weeks into the Arizona Republic’s coverage of the Fiesta Bowl fiasco, John Zidich — publisher of the daily newspaper — finally quit his position on the bowl’s five-member board of directors. The Republic’s article on Zidich’s resignation says the former Fiesta Bowl secretary wanted to avoid “any question of the…
Bryan Prehoda and Luis Belevan were running a pretty unsuccessful Scottsdale-based mortgage-relief service — so unsuccessful, in fact, as to constitute fraud and a judgment against them for almost $29 million. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge entered the default judgment this week, ordering Prehoda and Belevan to reimburse fees…
Tempe PD James Homer Ferris March 31 was a crappy day for 58-year-old James Ferris. In fact, crappy is an understatement — with his apartment catching on fire, cops finding 30 binders full of kiddie porn, and having to explain to investigators his penchant for wearing women’s underwear. About 10:30 a.m…
facebook.com Timothy M. Oline Driving drunk is dangerous in general. But when it’s part of a demolition derby through a Mesa neighborhood followed by a standoff with a SWAT officers, you begin to understand what Timothy Oline’s Wednesday night was like. Mesa police got a call that a driver was…
foundshit.com Have a McCrappy plastic toy too. The Arizona Legislature’s had a busy couple of weeks — Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill banning imaginary abortions and the state Senate’s trying to make sure Arizonans can’t vote a Kenyan into the White House — and on Wednesday, the Legislature voted…
MCSO John Stephen Beaupied: Sotally tober Some people believe in the “use of alternative fuel.” Apparently John Stephen Beaupied believes in the alternative use of fuel, which allegedly includes huffing gasoline and scaring the hell out of people at a Phoenix gas station. According to documents obtained by New Times,…
Warning labels usually come with bad news, like “Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide,” or “This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.” Now the Arizona Republic has a new warning label for all of their coverage of the Fiesta Bowl fiasco:…
Arizona State University’s athletic department is keeping a secret, and it’s creating a whole lot of buzz among Sun Devil faithful. People inside ASU athletics wouldn’t budge on divulging the secret to New Times, but we’re told the secret is a “total overhaul” of ASU’s athletic branding — especially for…
tcritic.com As we learned last month, Craigslist is a terrible place to go if you want to have sex with dogs. Now we’re learning Craigslist is also a terrible place to sell stuff you steal from people in Mesa. On Wednesday, a Mesa woman was perusing Craigslist when she found…
On Tuesday, the Fiesta Bowl released an internal investigation of bowl employees, highlighting questionable spending of the organization’s money and alleged illegal campaign contributions — the second such internal investigation since The Arizona Republic started reporting on it in 2009. But there’s one point that has been mostly ignored in…
On March 12, Chandler resident Volney Douglas went to the Internet with a problem — someone had stolen a $3,500 device that helps his 5-year-old son Sagan communicate. The family had just purchased the ALT-Chat device for Sagan, who has cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorder, before thieves broke…
Arizona’s just about overflowing with wacky politicos: Governor Jan Brewer, Senate President Russell Pearce, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, maybe Sarah Palin, and many, many others. But it apparently ain’t a party until Tea Party overlord Michele Bachmann shows up. The Arizona Republican Party made the announcement that the Minnesota…
A Canadian financial institution released a survey saying one in five maple leaf-ers want to hop the border to live in the United States, and before you yell “border fence,” consider their intent: they want to invest in America’s housing market (and probably go to hockey games). BMO Bank of…
KPHO Cody Bishop (left) died at 18 thanks to Steven Landrum. For a typical Arizonan, “.227” may refer to the box of rifle ammo in their truck, but for Steven Landrum — who was packing a .227 blood-alcohol level while driving his pickup truck when he crashed into and killed…
Like most parents would, off-duty Buckeye police Officer Corrina Griffith got in her car and searched for her stepdaughter after getting word the 15-year-old girl was running away from home. When Griffith, 36, found her stepdaughter hanging out with her teenage friends outside a Bashas’ grocery store about 10…
When the near-1,000-foot fence went up in the middle of the University of Arizona campus Monday, it seemed like an obvious message for a university that’s about an hour’s drive from the Mexican border — a cry against U.S. immigration policy. That’s not exactly the case, as photos and observations of the…
Like a 15-year-old girl, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio reached unprecedented levels of media sluttiness today when he not only felt compelled to announce how many cyber friends he has, but went so far as to lie about it, too. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office put out a press release…
Tuition increases proposed late last week by Arizona’s three public university presidents make getting a public education in Arizona pricier than ever. Worse, they were probably underestimated — again. Presidents of the three universities sent their pitch for new tuition increases to the Arizona Board of Regents on Friday, in…
Police say a man broke into a Mesa apartment Thursday morning, only to have his burglary plan hampered by getting caught in a clothes hamper. Mesa police Detective Mike Melendez tells New Times that a 45-year-old man was in the bathroom of his apartment, on the 300 block of North…
After allegedly slamming into a school bus full of 28 elementary-school children and driving away, Jonathan Carillo-Rubio tried to tell the cops he was just a scared kid — until they found out he wasn’t a kid, but a well-known human smuggler. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says Carillo-Rubio,…
